Category: Market Manipulation
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Monday, March 18, 2013
The "Blueprint" for Stock Market Manipulators / Companies / Market Manipulation
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes: While they may have perfected the trading strategies that use retail investors as patsies to enhance their profits, Wall Street titans like Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) didn't invent them - that honor goes to a man named Richard D. Wyckoff.
You may not have heard of Wyckoff because he died in 1934. But the book he published in 1931, "The Richard Wyckoff Method of Trading and Investing in Stocks - A Course of Instruction in Stock Market Science and Technique," became the blueprint for Wall Street's big investment banks shortly afterward, and remains so to this day.
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Sunday, March 17, 2013
How the Fed Controls the Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: DailyWealth
Dr. Steve Sjuggerud writes: I don't think of myself as a conspiracy wacko...
But I do believe that the U.S. Federal Reserve controls the stock market... at least, to some degree.
Our True Wealth Systems computers fully back me up on this one... to the point where you could make a lot of money.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Oil and Gasoline Markets Rigged Far Worse Than LIBOR / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: EconMatters
UBS paid $1.5 Billion for manipulating Libor, and Barclay`s already paid the piper for manipulating the Libor rate. Well, it is about time the CFTC get its act together, and start going after the culprits who rig the oil and gasoline markets costing consumers and businesses a mafia tax by paying prices much higher than the markets should be priced based upon supply and demand fundamentals in the consumption marketplace.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
The Murky World of India’s Commodity Futures Markets, Excessive Speculation and Market Manipulation / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Global_Research
Kavaljit Singh writes: The recent guar trading scandal gives a peek into the murky world of Indian commodity futures markets and reveals how commodity exchanges are acting like casinos for speculators, moving away from their avowed objectives of price discovery and price risk management in an efficient and orderly manner.
Guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba) is a drought resistant crop grown mainly in Rajasthan and parts of Haryana and Punjab. The sowing season for guar seed begins in July and the crop is ready for harvesting in October. Most guar farmers sell their produce to traders at the farm gate and nearby markets. A part of produce is also kept by farmers for seed, animal feed and fodder purposes.
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Friday, September 14, 2012
Why There’s No Jail Time for Wall Streeters / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes:
Wall Street is a "protected" operation. Protected means cops are aware of illegal activity, but are paid off to look the other way and even protect businesses from potential harm.
So, if you're waiting to get back into the markets once the trash has been taken out, you're about to find out your wait may be a lot longer than you expected.
Monday, September 03, 2012
Will Obama Manipulate the Dow Divisor, from Fiction to Reality? / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Submissions
Wim Grommen writes: Dow Jones Index to 58 points
After intensive consultation with his advisors, President Obama has decided to modify the formula used for calculating the Dow Jones Index. On January 1, 2013 the Dow Divisor will be changed to 30. The result of this change will be that the Dow Jones Index drops from the current 13,124 points to about 58 points. The underlying value of the 30 component stocks of course remains unchanged. With this modification to the formula Obama aims to make the large Dow fluctuations of recent decennia a thing of the past, and hopes that this will bring stability to the stock market. Banks, major investors and pension funds welcome this change in the Dow Jones Index formula.
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Monday, August 27, 2012
The Purpose of Market Intervention / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Alasdair_Macleod
Interventions in markets by governments and central banks are routine and we take them for granted. No one questions them, but they can create dangerous distortions. Their reason for intervening is to take price determination away from markets and consumers.
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Saturday, August 18, 2012
Market Manipulation, What Do Stocks Get That Credit and Bonds Don’t? / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Graham_Summers
I’m sick of writing about Europe. The entire situation over there is such a complete and total disaster that you could literally write a 12-volume set about it. So let’s forget about it for a while and look at something else which is only slightly less depressing… the rest of the world.
Thursday, August 16, 2012
What to Do When Every Market Is Manipulated, Hint: cut the strings / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Dr_Martenson
If you don't know who the sucker at the card table is, it's you. ~ old gambler's saying
What do the following have in common?
LIBOR, Bernie Madoff, MF Global, Peregrine Financial, zero-percent interest rates, the Social Security and Medicare entitlement funds, many state and municipal pension funds, mark-to-model asset values, quote stuffing and high frequency trading (HFT), and debt-based money?
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Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Are High Frequency Traders Rigging the Stock Market? / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Doug_Horning
Doug Hornig, Casey Research writes:
High-frequency traders (HFT) have no interest in any company whose stock they're trading.
They don't care about its earnings, what sector it's in, nor who's on the board of directors.
They neither know nor care how it fares in technical analysis, and they don't give a damn about its long-term prospects.
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Friday, August 03, 2012
The Bernanke Put is a Lie / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Graham_Summers
Now, about that Bernanke Put.
Many people believe that because Bernanke once talked about dropping money out of helicopters to fight deflation that he literally meant that he would do this if push came to shove. He didn’t. The whole thing was a bluff meant to prop up the markets: the famed Bernanke Put.
Truth be told, this bluff is probably the smartest thing Bernanke ever did. By threatening to leave a paperweight on the “print” button, he convinced the market and all of Wall Street that the Fed would always be there to step in and save the day.
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Saturday, July 21, 2012
The Libor Interest Rate Manipulation Scandal In Full Perspective / Interest-Rates / Market Manipulation
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
The article about the Libor scandal, coauthored with Nomi Prins, received much attention, with Internet repostings, foreign translation, and video interviews. To further clarify the situation, this article brings to the forefront implications that might not be obvious to those without insider experience and knowledge.
The price of Treasury bonds is supported by the Federal Reserve’s large purchases. The Federal Reserve’s purchases are often misread as demand arising from a “flight to quality” due to concern about the EU sovereign debt problem and possible failure of the euro.
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Friday, July 13, 2012
The Real LIBOR Scandal / Interest-Rates / Market Manipulation
By: Fred_Sheehan
Whatever can be said for and against Barclays and Bob Diamond, the story is in danger of exhausting itself at the wrong link in the chain. It has sidelined BubbleTV's around-the-clock coverage of Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg's dog walker has been waiting in a studio sound booth for a week now.
The populace has been so successfully coached and beaten to a pulp that the source of interest-rate price fixing is not mentioned. That source is the Federal Reserve.
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Friday, July 13, 2012
Libor Interest Rate Rigging: The Tip of the Market Manipulation Iceberg / Interest-Rates / Market Manipulation
By: Rob_Kirby
GATA was born in the late 1990’s - primarily on the back of fundamental research by Frank Veneroso regarding Central Bank Gold Leasing. Veneroso’s intellectual curiosity was aroused after being fed detailed data re: gold leasing by the Bank of England’s Terry Smeeton.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Extreme Danger Signs, U.S. Econcomy Galloping Recession, Brewing Gold Allocated Accounts Scandal / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Jim_Willie_CB
In recent public articles, the USTreasury Bond bubble was described, supported by Interest Rate Swaps to produce artificial demand and to create an illusion of a flight to safety in toxic USGovt Bonds. A Black Hole phenomenon was described, which will suck the capital life out of most assets, celebrate the USTBond rally, and accelerate the recession in the USEconomy. Numerous endgame signals were described, all alarming in their own right, not a single signal being from the realm of normalcy. Extreme danger is the warning. This week consider just a handful of danger signposts, all screaming loudly of systemic breakdown. They are all deeply disturbing signposts that complement the endgame signals with a scattered pox of symptoms on the landscape. The Jackass is firm and rigid in maintaining that ugly forecast made in late 2008, dismissed by many as foolish and off the mark. No longer.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
The Big Banks are Amateurs When It Comes to Manipulating Interest Rates / Interest-Rates / Market Manipulation
By: Washingtons_Blog
Who Are The Biggest Manipulators of All?
People are justifiably furious over the big banks’ manipulation of hundreds of trillions of dollars of assets. This violates the banks’ most central function: loaning money based upon the going rate.
Indeed, the Libor manipulation is so serious that even mainstream economists are starting to call for heads to roll.
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
Stock Market Manipulation and Technical Analysis / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Tim_Wood
As sort of a cycle in and of itself, the question of manipulation seems to periodically surface. When it does, I'm also always asked if the Dow theory or any other technical method is still valid because of all the efforts to manipulate the markets. The short answer is, Yes. While manipulation can have a temporary effect on the market, it cannot fix the problem, it cannot stop the inevitable and in the end it will only serve to make matters much worse.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
LIBOR Manipulation Leads To Questions Regarding Gold Manipulation / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: GoldCore
Today's AM fix was USD 1576.50, EUR 1284 and GBP 1012.91 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1594.50, EUR 1293.29 and GBP 1026 per ounce.
Gold fell by $19.40 in New York yesterday and closed down 1.2% at $1,568.40/oz. Silver fell 1.8% or 50 cents to $26.84/oz.
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
How Long Will the Bidding Up of Asset Prices on Leverage Go On / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Fred_Sheehan
The Tisch family's shipping venture (A Buyer's Market) jogged the memory. The August 26, 1985, issue of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, in which Jim Tisch discussed buying ships for less than 10% of the new construction price, included a mix of leveraged developments that appeared doomed. Some were. Some go on and on.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Libor Was a Criminal Conspiracy From the Start / Interest-Rates / Market Manipulation
By: Raul_I_Meijer
So far, everybody who's said anything about the Libor rigging affair appears to have been lying. And if Nouriel Roubini can call for "somebody hanging in the streets", I can at least call for all the Libor liars to go to jail for it. AND lose all their money, benefits, pensions, everything.
And while we’re at it, why not also throw in jail anyone who suggests that Barclays "might not" have been the only bank rigging the rates. Might not? As if Barclays could have manipulated Libor significantly all on its own?! Against scores of other major banks reporting their daily rates?!
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